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How Games Move Us

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

How Games Move Us

By Santa Cruz) Isbister Katherine (Professor University of California

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About the book

An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games.This is a renaissance moment for video games-in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? In How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister takes the reader on a timely and novel exploration of the design techniques that evoke strong emotions for players. She counters a...Show more

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9780262534451

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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How Games Move Us

Format

Paperback

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